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A STRANGE STORY

... The Sherborne Journal completes the love story of which Mr. Magan, an Irish gentleman and lately a member of Parliament, and Miss Miles arc the hero and heroine. Our readers will remember (says the Journal), sorao two years ago, an action for breach of promise of marriage at Bristol, which, falling at a very dull time of year, was made the most of by the Bristol papers. In commercial language, ...

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT SHEVINGTON

... THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT I SHE VNGTON. CONCLUSION OF THF INQUEST. The adjourned inquest, on the bodies of 13 men killed by the explosion at the Prince Albert Pit, Shevington, near Wigan, on the 1st instant, was held on Monda before Mr. Myres, coroner. After evidence as to the~ae of Ridion, who expired since the inquest was opened., tlE coroner and jury proceeded to the residence of Ral] ...

SHOCING MURDER AT COSELEY, STAFFORDSHIRE

... SHOCKUNG MURDER AT COSELEY, STAFFORD- | Within a short distance of tho scono of the late atrocious murder at Bilston, another murder was perpetrated on Sunday morning last. A man namned William Lewis, who is a widower lodging with his brother at Hall Green, near to Bilston was found on that morning lying dead on the road, with such marks of ill-usmgo about him as to indicate that he had been ...

JENNY LIND AGAIN

... The Liverpool Philharmonic Society have announced their last subscription concort for 18G1 for Tuesday, the 10th of next month, and the musical public will be delighted learn that they are to have another opportunity of hearing the far-famed Jenny Lind, together with Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Belletti, Mr. Otto Goldschmidt officiating conductor. The oratorio of The Me*siah will ...

FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE IN EDINBURGH

... (From the Scotsman.J One of the mwt and heartrending occurrences which it has ever been our duty to record took place a f w minutes afttr ore o'clock on in the sudden fall a densely populated *' land or tenement of dwelling houses in the lower division of.the High—trOet, which resulted—so far as has yet been ascertained—in the death fcf persons, and e it try, more or less severe, of others. ...

PRESTON COUNTY COURT

... (Before MI'. R. Segar, Q. C., Judge.) The usual fortnightly court was held at the Court-house yesterday. There were 144 original cases; 4 adjourned; and 15 judgment summonses; making a total of 163 cases for ad- judication. DISMISSAL OF WORKMEN WITHOUT NOTICE. HOLSTEAD v. ROBERT AND JOHN AsHworTH.-The action was brought to recover £3 Ss., equivalent to a fortnight's wages which the plaintiff ...

MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR PRESTON

... Of the many horrible catastrophes which it is the duty ktndj of the press to chronicle, none are so appalling in their weel mature or dreadful in their circumstances as those of mu- war( der, no matter how much mystery may surround the fact b or how clear may be the identity of the offenders. The Prcs people of Preston have, during the last few days, unfor- unw~ tuniately had occasion to ...

ROMANTIC WILL CASE

... In the Court of Chancery, on Thurgday the Master of thc RI lls ?? juidgm cnt in the cases of For& v. De Pontes and DIe pontes v. Kendall. These were crs ut odtrine the validity of a will aend of two deeds of appointment, cxc-. ented, un or the extraordinary circumstances detailed in his honour's judgment, by the late Mrs. Vernon Dolphin, iufavour of General de Pontes, the comnnandant of La ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... I P WEDNA YSDSA ' -(Before eMearg. GeooZai, Pcdler, and A I &X?9~12 re&ivevj Ak gltUoRhDLE OFF ?? Witherington was ,{Ib Tip~ P 'the custody of the Governor of the House of oricto OflD a writ of habears carus, charged with boing the ?? Of an ill' it still, for being in psscsaion of whch, ?? use in Ribbletan-lane, he was al present undergoing teto 8 the ficer oft coinomencinu on the ?? of the ...

ROMANTIC WILL CASE

... I OROMANTIO WILL OASE. ln the Court of Chancery, on Thursday, the Master of the Bolls gave judpment in the cases of Ford v. Do Poutes and DO Pontes ?? lKendall. These were cross suits to determine tho validity of a will and of two deeds of appointment, executed, under the extraordinary circumrstances dc- tailed in his honour's judgment, by the late Mrs. Vernon ])olphin in favour of General do ...

PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN AMERICA

... The transports conveying the troops which are supposed to be intended for an attack on New Orleans have arrived in Hampton Roads, off Fort Monroe, Virginia, and portion of them had gone up the Chesapeake to Annapolis, Maryland—as was said, to ship infantry, cavalry, and artillery for the expedition to the Gulf. Some doubt, however, was beginning to be felt as to whether the real object of the ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... WFEDX.ESDA Y.-Refore the Maryor, trssrs. B. Pcddcr, . OCKET G. Sidgreaves, and W. Birley.)j POCILET PICKINo.-Mary Gorst was charged. with attempt- ing to pick peckcto in tha Afarket-place, on Saturday, tho 2Bth ult.Jauc,'hadewick said that the jrsoner put her hand in her pocket, but wvas not successfal in ?? anything. She saw the prisouer attemyt to pick _nother yosn's pocket.-Jr. Rigby, ...